Chapter 304: Chapter 204: Apart from Talent, Can You Be This Strong?_1

[The Endless Challenge has concluded.]

[Consecutive victories: 100.]

[Legendary wins: 2.]

[Calculating your rewards based on the relevant information…]

[You have obtained the Mythical Material: Deathmatch Soul (All Aspects) *300]

[You have obtained the Mythical Item: Continuous Strengthening *2]

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[In this round of the Endless Challenge, your renown has spread throughout the Infinite Purgatory: the next time you participate, the probability of encountering a Legendary Overlord will significantly increase.]

After the Endless Challenge concluded,

despite the Bonespawn Asura’s reluctance, it was forcibly removed from the arena.

Jiang Chen, too, was automatically returned to the entrance at the edge of the Deathmatch Arena.

The reward settlement and relevant information also appeared before his eyes.

[Deathmatch Soul (All Aspects)]

[Quality: Mythical]

[Type: Material]

[Effect: When used to strengthen a mecha, minimally enhances the effects of other materials and slightly increases the strength of the mecha soul. (Inherently attribute-less, it can amplify the effects of any material)]

[Description: The soul of a warmonger, it seems to still roar with fervor.]

Before participating in the Endless Challenge, Jiang Chen had learned the specifics of the Endless Deathmatch Arena’s output from Shida.

The former is equivalent to a strengthening supplement.

When reinforcing a mecha, using one Deathmatch Soul can increase the effect of other materials by 1%, with a maximum of 10 usable per enhancement.

Base attributes, special attributes, etc., all can be effectively improved.

It is an extremely premium all-purpose auxiliary material, unique to the Purgatory level.

Many traders from ancient civilizations make special trips to the Purgatory level to trade and purchase this material, bringing it back for their mecha pilots to use.

However, an ordinary mecha pilot usually gets only a few materials for each Endless Challenge attempt.

Jiang Chen managed to harvest three hundred in one go!

“The difficulty increase in the Endless Challenge is quite significant; ordinary mecha pilots are more or less finished after a few rounds,”

“At most, they produce a few materials in one go.”

“However, considering the large base number of ordinary mecha pilots, and the long existence of the Endless Deathmatch Arena, the value of this material has already depreciated significantly,”

Shida’s trader warehouse had a substantial reserve of Deathmatch Souls.

When Jiang Chen had recently enhanced the three mechas: Zero, Yun, and Yuu, he also used this material, receiving the corresponding enhancement.

In comparison, the other item was the truly precious output.

[Continuous Strengthening]

[Quality: Mythical]

[Type: Item]

[Effect One: Use on one’s own mecha to temporarily raise the enhancement limit once. (Temporary enhancement limit, disappears after advancement, each mecha can be increased up to 5 times)]

[Effect Two: Bound item, cannot be traded]

[Description: A reward for the strong.]

As a new Mythical Item, Continuous Strengthening can increase the mecha’s enhancement limit from 10 to 15!

Using more premium materials to enhance attributes, this is the biggest improvement.

As for it being a temporary limit, which will revert to 10 times after mecha rank upgrade…

If you have enough of the item, doesn’t it essentially become a permanent upgrade?

“For every Legendary win, you acquire one Continuous Strengthening item.”

“Zero, Yun, Yuu – the three mechas together account for 15 times already. If you include the 4th Rank, that adds up to 30…”

“Also, considering Vitaz as a sealed mecha, it can’t be enhanced or have modules installed before the 6th Rank, because each time it’s unsealed, its attributes are maxed out, reaching the limit.”

“The Continuous Strengthening item increases the enhancement limit by five on top of the fixed ten times.”

“So, could the item be effective on her?”

“Does it grant five additional enhancement opportunities, or does it directly unlock more attribute limits?”

It was definitely something to try out.

In other words, the current number of Continuous Strengthening items needed has increased from 30 to 40.

Of course, for Jiang Chen, it was just a matter of fighting a few more rounds; the difference wasn’t significant.

He still needed to absorb new Mythical Life Primordial Blood through battle, just going with the flow.

However, Jiang Chen didn’t immediately start the next round of challenges.

Rather, he stood at the entrance, watching the mechas in combat.

During the just concluded hundred-round winning streak,

Jiang Chen had reaped a considerable bounty.

For example, after thoroughly absorbing and digesting the Star Phoenix Primordial Blood, it brought not only specialized organs.

But also, as a mecha pilot trait, altered the effects of Jiang Chen’s capabilities, resulting in a “Mythical Specialization.”

However, because the trait had not fully evolved,

the effect of this Mythical Specialization only applied to the recovery abilities related to the Star Phoenix Primordial Blood.

It merely enhanced part of his strength.

But…

The [Mythical Specialization] trait is not purely Physique Type.

It can also be applied to mechas, endowing them with Mythical Specialization enhancements!

And, as the mechas inherently only have a part of Jiang Chen’s abilities, which are more extreme,

they received a more comprehensive boost.

Take, for example, the primeval mecha: Zero!

She had already absorbed the power of the Star Phoenix Egg, and now, with the boost from [Star Phoenix Specialization], the power of the modules she carried changed rapidly.

She exhibited a Legendary stature—

Zero was originally a red and white bio-organic Roots mecha.

But under the surging Life Force, the countless minute root armors on her surface began to scatter like the wind.

They didn’t completely disperse into fine filaments but intertwined with each other, adopting the dominant color of Solar Red, almost like a continuously burning flame.

At this moment, up against Zero, Yun, and Yuu were three mechas of an unknown mecha pilot.

One of the mechas used an energy weapon to bombard Zero.

These continuously drifting “flame roots” were extinguished as quickly as real flames under the influence of the energy, like a real fire.

At the same time, they also neutralized the force of the attack.